University of Massachusetts Amherst - Index Yearbook (Amherst, MA)

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Mike Bardsley s Union of Student Employees QUSEQ petitioned the Massachusetts State Labor Rela- tions Board to be recognized as a legal union, The University had spent much money against the for- mation of USE during four separate hearings before the Labor Board. The University questioned whether the law recognized student workers as public employees. University La- bor Coordinator Harold Overing said UMass contested the USE petition since it dealt only with Campus Cen- ter workers. They felt that if the Commission granted the Union bar- gaining rights then the Union should include all student workers. USE thought of the Campus Center as a separate unit of interrelated depart- ments where workers would have similar grievances. Overing said the University further contested the in- clusion of hourly workers, which throws students and non-students together in one petition. If the Labor Board granted USE their petition, an election would be held in which all University employees could vote on which union, if any, they want to re- present them. l Jim Paulin V . Almost 1500 demonstrators from 22 state colleges gathered on the Boston Common to hear speeches and de- mands against budget cuts. Eighty stu- dents from UMass-Amherst attended. Protesters remained for two and a half hours in front of the State House steps. Speakers called for united action in let- ting the legislators know that students wouldn't tolerate more cuts in their education. John Chase, a representa- tive of the 5,100 faculty in the state system, said the faculty pledged their support against decreasing the budget. Senate Ways and Means Chairman, James Kelly, spoke of the tuition in- crease as a compromise of a difficult situation. Seventy-seven UMass administra- tors, among them Chancellor Ran- dolph W. Bromery, did not receive a paycheck the week of October 3. The administrators voluntarily deferred the money in the administration payroll ac- count to the payroll account for the 4,000 University employees' pay- checks. The money was switched back into the administrators' account at a later date. The University's inability to meet its full payroll was caused by the failure of the Head Controller of the Secretary of Administration and Fi- nance to implement a law designed to give UMass the fiscal autonomy to transfer money between accounts. ln the future, Bromery said that money would have to be transferred from ac- counts which provide money for such things as supplies in order to meet pay- rolls. 5 0 9 X G 9 ae! 376 'G 3 A 5 '. 3 , ogy X ONQQQF: 8 fill'-1? Encnnrxtv U9 35 oe i LQ' NCC ol EE S --4 Milf - 1 f oevilcllo BMW- E MGMT . Omg! CUMHUI HMM RU PM SX M Q-QS 'f flZEC'2ie N H ESR' if wvtow- movies 'SSM tn :.MOl-l ' x 1 s wtf New , R . f. 109 ig?-T' PM SX M 100375 DUQNON CODE f -5 NUMBER QE-ff 'f i '-1 ,i if 1' EMPLOYEE igsiii Deli ' T ,f-' ' ATEMENT B 1 7 9 5 W PAY ST of 75 0 ,V I A-0313-Z5i lair Ns U- 'L' :MDI OYEE 5 f ruff- f-H5912 m:niifTlO'?' COE ,,7, EMPLOYEES T VA s - --,V ii 1 Q :S ,N Y TAT ' 4: if PA S EMEN isfliiiif NJEEEH oeoucriow Coos Sl bro Amour-ir i Nonmmfasr oc v+T 2 summer . an 3 ansicir-is DN .urasevcf PW5-if Vw T f La. . . O i l i 2O O'?M'NS NZ' l ' ' i 2 W l E Ovuwwf W i so D f Url-'M , A r l ,. li ' s c wvu o su i im. Wi it vco cssi is in,-.non W cy !75N J W 30931. W 4 ,O Fw RH QMEO i i ' 1 Y Ass ssoc D 1 i 1 i 1 co E l 5 i l , 1 E l E i J toc tu o N5 1 2 5 E s 0 ' - l 1 l '4 os s x S - - - - io t cf 4'-'tg- - s s cami Sarah Moore. 0 no-frills airlines 0 George Wallace C I g , A 7 Haggis fffiii 'E C EE-' E K OSS 3 ' 5 urn nirsii 26 News of the Year REM-ygf, O D5 . N msg YI C D- S Sli Eff is 5?S'l'Z?.f 5 NUM' 74 un nrlimm S au nu nu ua 7

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Daniel Smith Tickets for the Boston Symphony Orchestra concert were sold out by 10:45 a.m., a little more than two hours after the box office opened. The box office had opened at 8:30 a.m. in- stead of the scheduled 9:00 a.m. due to the number of people already in line. Although the concert hall seats 2,000. only 500 tickets were on sale. The oth- er 1500 tickets were distributed as fol- lows: 1000 went to orchestra series subscribers, 250 were bought by the Chancellor's office, 150 went to the Alumni Association, and 100 went to the press and related people. Alan Light, manager ofthe Arts Council, said a lot ot the problems that morning had to do with the new box office in the Fine Arts Center which wasn't complet- ed at the time, and the new ticket sell- Stuart Eymari ing system, Ticketron, which didn't al- low people to choose their seats. Light said that in the future, people would be able to choose their seats on a first- come, first-serve basis, and there would be more tickets put on sale tor students and the general public. For details on the debut weekend of the Fine Arts Center, see page 60. The Student Legal Services Office gained the power to represent stu- dents in criminal matters and to en- gage students in litigation against the University. This decision by the Board of Trustees would be active until the end of fiscal 1976. Debate on the issue concentrated on the legality of using University money in court action against the University. ' bicenfenniililfrf-11533 iiiilllliieffafe 1 UP. News ol' tlic 'if

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Daniel Smith Wendy Waldman, the 24-year old singer and com- poser from Los Angeles, entertained 1000 people in the Student Union Ballroom. Waldman accompa- nied herself on guitar, piano, and dulcimer. She sang many songs from her latest album - her third. man The Student Government Associ- ation QSGAJ, election resulted in a vic- tory for co-candidates Ellen Gavin and Henry Ragin. Gavin and Ragin felt the victory showed a mandate from the students to move toward a student union. Approximately 6,000 students turned out to vote. This election at this time was made possible by former SGA President John 0'Keefe's resignation from office in fulfillment of his cam- paign platform promise. His stepping down allowed for the institution of the new popular election procedure rather than the traditional electoral vote, and for holding the first publicly financed election for the office of SGA President in the country. The four candidates - two running jointly - were allotted S200 each in campaign money by the SGA and were held accountable for their expenses. In addition, this was an election of 127 senatorial candidates vying for 120 seats. Five hundred members of the Third World community rallied to protest campus-wide racism which they attri- bute to discriminatory attitudes by white students. Two incidents which were felt to be racist attacks on Third World people prompted this call for unity. They were the attack of a black woman by five white males in Southwest, and the confrontation be- between eleven Third World persons and Bluewall bouncers. The rally pro- ceeded from the New Africa House to Whitmore, and on to the Bluewall where a number of speakers were heard. Speakers pointed out areas of discrimination and stressed the need for pulling together.